Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Buford

Rachael Ray is probably the most watched kitchen personality in the history of American television.

Cynthia Ozick

History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.

E. W. Howe

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

Brian Kilmeade

Without Cooperstown, you don't have baseball: Baseball is history.

Andrew Bird

Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.

Amy Bloom

I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most of what we have. For Trollope, society; for Roth, Jews. For me, apparently, love. Why hide it?

Carlos Fuentes

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

Washington Irving

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Malcolm X

History proves that the white man is a devil.

Anthony Horowitz

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

This will be the peak of their results because of the high hot-rolled coil prices.

This region has been hit pretty hard, ... We were doing much better in the 1990s than the national average. But since 2000, we've been doing worse.

Brodie Croyle

To be able to do what they did, no sacks -- I got hit once and that was a late hit -- was amazing.

John Burnside

When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father's circumstances other than what he'd told me.

Ron Gardenhire

When you have 13 hits and you've got no runs, there's not many explanations for it,

When you do genealogy, you do history by accident.

John Gibbons

The platoon is still on, he just hits Vazquez good.

We've got to get into a flow, and we haven't really hit it yet. We're going to hit it, we're going to turn the corner. There's too much leadership on this team not for us to turn this around.

There has never in human history been that many communications sources.

There has never been a single homicide in history that has been investigated to this extent.

There has been some disappointment over hedge-fund performance in general, but investors are still after that upside potential - a star manager to hit a home run for them.

David Eckstein

When Berkman hit the homer, the place was unbelievable. They were so loud.

We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in.

We're not playing well and it's a frustrating situation to be in. The timely hitting hasn't been there.

Avery Johnson

This tragedy didn't hit Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. It hit America.

Jamie Langenbrunner

Toronto. I do (remember). I hit the post with 20 seconds left.

Ram Dass

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

We were right there, making a big push. They hit that 3-pointer, then made another run and that was it.

Mary Landrieu

We don't need to be laying off people. We need to be hiring people.

A. N. Wilson

We don't need another Teflon-like hidden risk at DuPont.

We can't tell exactly. We're going on historical data.

We come up with the big hits when we need it. Every night it's been somebody different.

William Shakespeare

[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms!